M 4.5 in Peru on 22 May 2017 14:27 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1113588
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 51.09 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.1768 , -70.4848
Event Date: 22 May 2017 14:27 UTC
22 May 2017 09:27 Local
Exposed Population:
690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2017 15:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Peru)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008u52 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 222 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Deceased donor leaves ¥40 million, property in Osaka to 3/11 orphansFri, 26 May 2017 13:46:00 +0200.

SENDAI – An anonymous person has willed roughly ¥40 million in savings and about ¥17 million in property to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures on the condition the funds be used to support those orphaned by the 2011 earthquake and tsun
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White House budget aims to ‘slow’ gains in weather prediction, shockin ... Fri, 26 May 2017 12:20:00 +0200.

The main U.S. weather forecasting model, which has fallen behind the European model in its accuracy, has been called a “national embarrassment.” In an inexplicable budget proposal that has floored the weather community, the Trump administra
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العِلم وسياسة التنمية الدوليةFri, 26 May 2017 11:56:00 +0200.

آن ماري سلوتر - وكيت هيمس في مظهرها الخارجي، تبدو القرية القابعة عند سفح جبال تيان شيان مشابهة للقرى المجاورة لها. يقف الرجال بالقرب من القناة وهم يرتدون قبعات كالباك التقليدية، ويلعب الأطفال في النهر، وتخبز النساء خبز النان، الخبز القرغيزي
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Capacitan a personal de justicia en prevención de desastresFri, 26 May 2017 11:51:00 +0200.

A fin de prevenir consecuencias lamentables producto de la desinformación ante un eventual sismo de gran magnitud, la Corte Superior de Justicia del Callao presidida por el Dr. Walter Ríos Montalvo, con el apoyo de la Oficina de Seguridad I
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),